Humidifying container for radiators



April 23, 1929. R.. s. 'MARTER HUMIDIFYING CON'I A INER FOR RADIATOR-S Patented Apr. 23, 1929.

UNITED. STATES Brennan G. MAa'rnaor MILWAUKEE, WISCQNSIN, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL EN- i I 1,710,31 PATENT oFFicE.

AMELING &, STAIVIPING 00., MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN riutriniryme CONTAINER FOB RADIATOBS.

Application filed February 28 1927. Serial No. 171,671.

' This invention relates to humidifyingcontainersfor radiators.

In humidifying containers for radiators, as heretofore constructed, it is the usual practice to provide the container with hooks which act as supporting members and which are guided by means of clips secured within the container, so that the hooks may be turned about a vertical axis and dropped down into the container, and it has been further found necessary to provide an auxiliary brace for joining the inner and outer walls of the container to prevent their spreading when the load, due to. the water, is imposed upon the device. It has been found with this prior type of container that additional work is required for securing the clips in placeand also for providing an auxiliary brace. In addition to this, in. order to guide the hooks effectively the clips are placed below the water level and rapidly corrode and cause trouble. I I

This invention is designed to overcome the above noted defects and objects of such invention are to provide a novel form of humid ifying container for-radiators which is so constructed that the supporting hooked members actas bracesand prevent spreading of the container when loaded with water and thus avoid the necessity for the auxiliary brace,

and to so relate the hooks or supporting members and the container that the members a-r carried without using auxiliary clips for guiding them, and are positioned wholly ahove the water level under all conditions of use. I

A further obj eet is to provide a humidifycontainer of the above described type which nevertheless may be knocked down, that is to say,.may have its supporting hooked members detachedand positioned within the container to facilitate shipping and storage.

Embodiments of the invention are shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 shows the humidifying container in place upon a radiator, such view being partly in section; I

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view partly in section of the upper portion of the container;

- Figure 3 is a face view of the structure shown in Figure 2 with a portionof the supporting hooked member in section;

Figure 4 is a View corresponding appro'xiwall 2 to fit between the portions ofthe ra diator 3 in the usual manner. These inner and outer walls are provided with apertures which are reenforced by grommets l, as shown most clearly in Figures 2. and These groinnets, it will be seen from Figure 3, are horizontally elongated and furnish a hearing for the portions of thesupporting hooked mem-v bers '5, such members being providedwith downturned portions 8 in the usual manner to hook over the appropriate portion of the rall2tii0l,'21S shown in Figure 1. The supporting members?) are provioed with an upwardly arched portion or offset portion'6 lyin in the same plane with the vertical portion T5 and such arched or upwardly offset portion 1S positioned between the front and rear walls of the container. Further, the outer end of the supporting member is flattened or spread, as indicated at 7 in Figure 2, so as toprevent its inadvertent withdrawal from its rommet when the parts are turned into their operative position, as shown in Figure 2.

' iowevei', when it is desired to ship the device the supporting members may be i'eadilv detached by rocking them 90 about their pivoted portuyns. This places the flattened portions 4 m. the piano of-the elongated. open- .::r,,... 111g 01 its coiiespom lug giominot and PM:

inits' the ready in yard withdrawal of the flattcned or enlarged portion. F urthtr the arched portion 6 or offset portion may be easily withdrawn through the inner groinmet by slightly tilting the supportingmember during this operation. The supporting1i1embersv may then be temporarily stored within the container and the container thus shipped in a compacted condition.

It is to be particularly noted that the groin mets' and the supporting members are located wholly above the water level and, consequently, corrosion of the parts will not result.

The same inventive idea is followed in the.

form shown in Figure t with, however, the exception that the grommets 4 are turned vertically, that is to say, their elongated aperture extendsvertically. corres iiondingly.

the offset or arched portion 6 and the fiattened portion 7 are arranged horizontally when the supportingmember '5 is verticahas shown in Figure 4, so that't-here is the interlocking between the parts 6 and 7 and their corresponding groinn iets when the device is 1n operative position.

It will be seen that when it is desired to detach the supporting members from the container all that is necessary is to lock the supporting members 90 from their vertical position and detach them in the manner described previously in connection with the first "form of the invention.

It will be seen that a very Si1i'l] )l(-3 type of hiunidifying container for rzuliators has been provided by this invention and one which may be moreeheaply manufactured than the usual types of containers, as no additional guiding clips are necessary and as-no reenforcing transverse braces are required. The supporting members serve in the double c2 pacity as supporting members and as bracing members interlocking or bracing the inner and outer Walls of the container.

It Will be turther seen that the corrosion heretofore experienced with the usual types shape, a supportin member normally;

and the grommets are located above the Water level. i I

Although the invention 'hasbeen described in considerable detail, such description is. in

vessel having front and rear Walls end Walls and a bottom Wall, said front. and rearWalls having aligned apertures therein of oval pivotaily mounted \v-z hin said apertures and having oi iset portions ada ited to be turned at right angles to the longer axis of said apertures, said si ppoitinn, member having an oilset inner portion adaptedto brace and space the Walls a-ii'zartan-d havingran u 'nvardly projecting hook-shaped en-(Lavhereby said member may be detached from said container. l

in testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at lvtiilwaukee; in

the county of lililwaulise alld State oti vis' consin.

RICHARD G. Dali-RTE)?.- 

